Open Gov_What's Gone Wrong, What's Gone Right? What's gone wrong and what's gone great? As we near the end of the (first term of) the Obama presidency, it's an appropriate time to review the successes, failures, and lessons learned in local, state and national efforts ...

As media makers and members of the public, we increasingly have access to rich data sets that contain information about our communities, our politics and our government. Our panelists explore their strategies for finding and sharing stories embedded within sets of ...

The Disappearing Neutrino?Dr. Joshua Spitz, 2011–14 Pappalardo Fellow (Experimental Neutrino Physics)More than 80 years after its proposed existence, the neutrino remains mysterious and enigmatic. We don't know the mass of the neutrino, how many ...

"A Membrane Puzzle"Dr. Silviu Pufu,2011–14 Pappalardo Fellow (String Theory)It has been known for quite some time that ten-dimensional string theory is contained within a fairly mysterious eleven-dimensional theory of membranes (higher dimensional generalizations ...

April 19, 2012Dr. Roger Nicoll of the University of California, San Francisco was awarded the 2012 Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience for his pioneering work on synaptic plasticity, the process by which the brain's connections are modified in response to experience (click ...